Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of History Charles S. Maier, one of the Harvard professors attending the conference, gave a seminar on both how the policies of the Marshall Plan could apply today and the pre-conditions that were necessary for its original success...
Eager to follow up on the phenomenal success of Teddy and a second hit, the Lazer Tag ray-gun game, WOW has introduced a host of high-tech toys, including talking versions of Mickey Mouse and Mother Goose. But the new products have not generated enough sales to cover promotion costs...
...Reagan Administration was delighted with the attack. "It is in fact the largest single operation that the resistance has carried out," noted a State Department military analyst. He declared the drive a strategic success because it targeted Sandinista staging areas and income-producing gold mines. State Department Spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley credited "military pressure" with bringing the Sandinistas to the bargaining table...
...After Kulakov became Agriculture Secretary for the entire Soviet Union, Gorbachev eventually succeeded him in Stavropol -- and Kulakov apparently made sure his protege became known in Moscow. In 1977 the "Ipatovsky method," a new technique of harvesting grain quickly by using flying squads of combines, was judged a smashing success. The idea was probably Kulakov's, but it was first tried in the district of Ipatovsky, in Stavropol Krai, under Gorbachev's supervision. The young regional politician was accorded the honor of an interview on the front page of Pravda, his first taste of national publicity...
...leaped from there to No. 1 in only seven more years is another question still not fully answered. Certainly his rise was not attributable to % any glittering success in agriculture. Quite the opposite: the grain harvest fell from a record 230 million tons in 1978, when Gorbachev was taking over the agriculture portfolio, to a calamitous total of perhaps only 155 million tons in 1981. Bad weather played a role. So did Brezhnev, who announced a grandiose reorganization of agriculture that seemed to create more problems than it solved. Still, it is remarkable that Gorbachev managed not only to escape...